I finished my Masters in Horticulture at Humboldt University of Berlin in 1996 and participated in the SLE-Post Graduate Course in International Development Cooperation in 1997. During my studies, I had first experiences in African countries, e.g. Burkina Faso, Guinea, Cameroun and Madagascar.
Afterwards I have been working for German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) at Headquarters and in different agricultural projects in Ivory Coast and Ghana, specialising in project planning, budgeting, implementation and monitoring with main focus on quality management, certification, food safety and standards, value chain approach and Integrated Crop and Pest Management.
Trainer and Programme Associate
Ms. Eva Prediger
I graduated in Geography with a special focus on development research at Bonn University and participated in the SLE-Postgraduate Course in International Development Cooperation. During my studies I gained first experiences in Africa (Malawi, Uganda) and Latin America (Guatemala). Afterwards I worked with the German Development Service (DED) in Bolivia in the fields of organisational development, democratisation, human rights and conflict transformation within the programme of the Civil Peace Service (ZFD). As a trainer and freelance consultant I worked for different institutions in Germany and Bolivia, especially on the issues of Results-based Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation, Participatory Methods and Approaches, Capacity Building, Workshop Design and Facilitation.
Finance Manager
Ms. Sabine Doerr
I have been working at the Humboldt Universität for 35 years, the last 13 years for the SLE. Within the Berlin Training for International Development Cooperation Programme I am responsible for all financial issues. (Languages: German)
Trainers
Prof. Dr.Theo Rauch
I have been working for more than 30 years in the field of development studies and development promotion, partly from an academic perspective, partly as development practitioneer in various African and Asian countries. My academic degrees I did in economics (M.A.) and Economic Geography / Regional Planning (PhD, professoral thesis). In my practical work I was involved in macro-level policy advice as well as in project and programme planning on behalf of various German and international development cooperation agencies. Since 20 years I am involved in practice oriented post-graduate training and further training for development practitioners. My work focuses on rural development, decentralization and community development, regional economic development, planning methods, and development policies in the context of globalisation. (see homepage www.theorauch.de )
Mr. Jochen Lohmeier
Jochen Lohmeier works with public and private sector organizations at the boundary of strategic planning and people development. His expertise is in complex large system change, identification and design of socio-economic interventions, leadership support to executive level clients and work teams, and facilitative management. Jochen's more than 30 years experience lets him draw on a broad spectrum of focused interventions, including facilitation, coaching, training, mentoring, consulting, which help enable organizations and leaders to unlock their full resource potentials.
Ms. Gabi Struck
I was trained as an International Agrarian Economist at the University of Kassel. Since 1982 I have been working in the field of international cooperation world wide, including 6 years in Brazil in the field of rural development with several organisations.Since 1994 I have been working as a freelance consultant, appraiser and trainer in Germany, Africa and Latin America. I am currently lecturing project management at the Leipzig University within the framework of the SEPT Master’s Programme (Small Enterprise Promotion and Training), the Institute of African Studies, the Institute of Advanced and Global Studies and also at the Humboldt University in Berlin within the framework of the SLE and within the DAPP - Development and Project Planning - at the MSc International Agricultural Sciences.
Mr. Dirk Sprenger
Learning about conflict transformation inevitably involves learning about yourself. People will accept you as a facilitator only if they see that you exemplarily live up to what you talk about, that you aren’t simply working with applied techniques but actually persuade with your personality; that you are convinced of what you are doing, and not just adopting an attitude. Therefore a premise for becoming a facilitator for change in the area of conflict prevention and conflict transformation is that you are receptive to learn about yourself. This is one of the most important experiences I have made over the years regarding this issue. I live in Berlin and work as an independent facilitator, consultant and trainer in personal development. I wish to mediate my experience in this field and am looking forward to sharing profound capacities of analysis with you, and at the same time utilising empathy and feeling for human needs and emotions.
Ms. Anja-Katrin Fleig
Ms. Ute Zurmühl
As a sociologist I have professional training in strategic communication. The professional area of communication has always been my passion as I strongly believe projects and programmes are more successful if conceptual communication tools are followed from the planning phase through to implementation and evaluation.
I gained my professional experience in the Public Relations department of a Development NGO in Germany, as well as in Mozambique where I worked for four years.
Since 2006 I have lived with my family close to Munich and work as a free-lance facilitator, consultant and trainer in the field of communication.
